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Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron and Son

Seán Hemingway, curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses early twentieth-century reproductions of works from Sir Arthur Evans's historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenaean Greece.

This lecture was recorded on September 9, 2011, in conjunction with the exhibition Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son, on view May 17, 2011, through June 17, 2012.

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Glass perfume bottle

Period:: Mid Imperial
Date:: 2nd–3rd century A.D.
Culture:: Roman
Medium:: Glass; blown
Dimensions:: Other: 6 3/4 x 3 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (17.1 x 9.5 x 3.5 cm)
Classification:: Glass
Credit Line:: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76
Accession Number:: 74.51.19

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Description

Candlestick unguentarium.
Colorless with bluish tinge.
Tubular rim folded out, over, and in; cylindrical neck flaring downward; convex body, curving out and sharply downward; pushed-in bottom with central kick.
Broken and repaired on body with small hole in edge at base; many bubbles and blowing striations; pitting, iridescence, and patches of creamy brown weathering.
Provenance

From Cyprus, said to be from a tomb at Idalion (modern Dali)
References

Myres, J.L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 5332, p. 509.
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Roman Empire (5,257)
When
A.D. 1-500 (6,219)
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